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Northern Plains

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:16:56 GMT

Image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on November 12, 2006. The complete image is centered at 71.7 degrees latitude, 189.9 degrees East longitude....

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Chasma Boreale

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:16:41 GMT

Image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on November 12, 2006. The complete image is centered at 84.9 degrees latitude, 2.3 degrees East longitude....

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Chasma Boreale Scarp

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:16:41 GMT

Image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on November 11, 2006. The complete image is centered at 85.0 degrees latitude, 339.0 degrees East longitude....

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Floor of Kasei Valles

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:16:38 GMT

This HiRISE image shows a wonderfully complex surface on the floor of this ancient flood-carved canyon. In this area, the water flowed from the west to the east. However, the floor does not show the kinds of landforms scientist expect from flood erosion....

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Wallrock and Light-toned Layering in Candor Chasma

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:16:34 GMT

While the canyon walls that define Valles Marineris appear dark and blocky, the interior of the canyons can sometimes be filled with light-toned rocks that appear layered. This HiRISE image shows the two geologic units in Candor Chasma, one of several canyons that make up Valles Marineris....

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Delta In Eberswalde

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:16:05 GMT

This HiRISE image covers a portion of a delta that partially fills Eberswalde crater in Margaritifer Sinus. The delta was first recognized and mapped using MOC images that revealed various features whose presence required sustained flow and deposition into a lake that once occupied the crater....

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Ganymede in Visible and Infrared Light

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:43 GMT

This montage compares New Horizons' best views of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, gathered with the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and its infrared spectrometer, the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA)....

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Winter View of Dunes in Proctor Crater

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:41 GMT

Dunes with Proctor Crater on Mars are seen in this newly released HiRISE image. Proctor is located in the southern hemisphere where it is winter at the time this image was taken. The HiRISE image documents new seasonal processes occurring on dunes at this latitude, as well as other interesting pheno....

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Faults and Pits in the North Polar Residual Ice Cap

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:32 GMT

This full HiRISE image shows faults and pits in the north polar residual cap that have not been previously recognized. The faults and depressions between them are similar to features seen on Earth where the crust is being pulled apart....

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CloudSat Profiles Tropical Storm Andrea

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:29 GMT

CloudSat's Cloud Profiling Radar captured a profile across Tropical Storm Andrea on Wednesday, May 9, 2007, near the South Carolina/Georgia/Florida Atlantic coast. The upper image shows an infrared view of Tropical Storm Andrea from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument on NAS....

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Faulting in Amazonis Planitia

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:16 GMT

This HiRISE image is centered on a long "strike-slip" fault on the young plains in the Amazonis region of Mars. The most famous example of a strike-slip fault on the Earth is probably the San Andreas Fault in California....

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Io Surface Changes

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:14 GMT

This montage compares similar sides of Io photographed by the Galileo spacecraft in October 1999 (left) and the New Horizons spacecraft on February 27, 2007. The New Horizons image was taken with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) from a range of 2.7 million kilometers (1.7 million miles)....

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Martian Dichotomy Boundary

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:10 GMT

This HiRISE image crosses over a part of the hemispheric dichotomy boundary on Mars which separates low-lying northern plains from older southern highlands. In the northern part of the scene, much of the surface is covered with small boulders, most only 1-2 meters wide (1 meter is approximately 1 ya....

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Impact Crater Filled With Layered Deposits

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:07 GMT

This HiRISE image shows an impact crater in Utopia Planitia, in the northern hemisphere of Mars, that is filled with layered material. The layered character of these deposits is consistent with episodic deposition....

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Dusty Top of Alba Patera Volcano

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:04 GMT

This HiRISE image shows a small portion of the rim of the caldera at the top of the volcano Alba Patera. This volcano has shallower slopes than most of the other large volcanoes on Mars. Unfortunately, this image is not able to help us understand what is unique about Alba Patera because of the thick....

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Light Layered Deposits in Valles Marineris

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:00 GMT

This image shows bright layered deposits near the junction of Coprates Chasma and Melas Chasma, part of Valles Marineris. The outcrop shown here is in a wide alcove in the northern wall and forms a broad mound several kilometers wide; dark, wind-blown material covers it in places....

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Layers in Gale Crater Central Mound

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:14:57 GMT

This image shows a portion of the central mound in the impact crater Gale that is of interest to scientists because it is composed of light-toned layered deposits. The layered deposits could have formed in a water environment if a lake once filled the crater....

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Layers in Becquerel Crater

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:14:55 GMT

The layers shown in this HiRISE image formed by loose sediment accumulating within Becquerel crater. The layers are interesting in that there are repeated cycles of thick and thin layers. These cyclic changes in layer thickness shows that some environmental conditions varied in a repeated way as eac....

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St. Louis, Missouri

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:14:46 GMT

St. Louis is tucked in a bend of the Mississippi River, just south of the point at which the Illinois River joins the larger Mississippi, and where the Missouri River flows in from the west. Drainage patterns to the east, on the Illinois side, are highlighted with green vegetation....

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Enigmatic Ice Mound

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:14:27 GMT

This full HiRISE image shows the edge of an ice mound located inside a 1.5 Km (~1 mile) deep impact crater a few hundred kilometers south of the northern permanent ice cap. The ice-mound is up to 200m (656 feet) thick at its center and much thinner here at its edge....

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Tvashtar Composite

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:04:05 GMT

Variations in the appearance of the giant plume from the Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter's moon Io are seen in this composite of the best photos taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) during its Jupiter flyby in late February-early March 2007....

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Europa Rising

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:04:01 GMT

New Horizons took this image of the icy moon Europa rising above Jupiter's cloud tops with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at 11:48 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, six hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter....

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CRISM's First 'Targeted' Observation of Mars

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:32 GMT

businesses in the United States and abroad. This shows the first site on Mars imaged by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) using its full-resolution hyperspectral capability, with a "targeted image." During a targeted image, CRISM's movable gimbal tracks a point on the ....

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Jupiter's Moons: Family Portrait

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:32 GMT

This montage shows the best views of Jupiter's four large and diverse "Galilean" satellites as seen by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter in late February 2007....

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Left Limb of North Pole of the Sun, March 20, 2007

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:29 GMT

NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites have provided the first three-dimensional images of the Sun. For the first time, scientists will be able to see structures in the Sun's atmosphere in three dimensions....

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Closer View of the Equatorial Region of the Sun, March 24, 2007

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:27 GMT

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Volcanic Eruptions in Kamchatka

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:27 GMT

One of the most volcanically active regions of the world is the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia, Russia. It is not uncommon for several volcanoes to be erupting at the same time. On April 26, 2007, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radioneter (ASTER) on NASA's Terra spac....

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Phoenix Lander on Mars

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:20 GMT

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander monitors the atmosphere overhead and reaches out to the soil below in this artist's depiction of the spacecraft fully deployed on the surface of Mars. Phoenix has been assembled and tested for launch in August 2007 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., and for landi....

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South Pole of the Sun, March 20, 2007 (Anaglyph)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:18 GMT

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Defrosting of Russell Crater Dunes

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:11 GMT

These two images (at right) were acquired by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) 39 days apart at 19:10 UTC (2:10 PM EST) on December 28, 2006 (upper right) and at 20:06 UTC (3:06 PM EST) on February 5, 2007 (lower right)....

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Depth-to-Ice Map of a Southern Mars Site Near Melea Planum

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:10 GMT

Color coding in this map of a far-southern site on Mars indicates the change in nighttime ground-surface temperature between summer and fall. This site, like most of high-latitude Mars, has water ice mixed with soil near the surface....

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South Polar Cryptic Terrain in Early Spring

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:10 GMT

This image of the south polar region of Mars was taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) at 1557 UTC (10:57 a.m. EST) on Feb. 10, 2007, near 77.55 degrees south latitude, 131.98 degrees east longitude....

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Right Limb of the South Pole of the Sun, March 18, 2007

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:03 GMT

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Jupiter's High-Altitude Clouds

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:03:02 GMT

The New Horizons Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) snapped this incredibly detailed picture of Jupiter's high-altitude clouds starting at 06:00 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, when the spacecraft was only 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from the solar system's largest plane....

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Phoenix Lander on Mars (Stereo)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:02:58 GMT

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander monitors the atmosphere overhead and reaches out to the soil below in this stereo illustration of the spacecraft fully deployed on the surface of Mars. The image appears three-dimensional when viewed through red-green stereo glasses....

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South Pole of the Sun, March 20, 2007

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:02:34 GMT

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Jupiter's Rings: Sharpest View

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:02:32 GMT

The New Horizons spacecraft took the best images of Jupiter's charcoal-black rings as it approached and then looked back at Jupiter. The top image was taken on approach, showing three well-defined lanes of gravel- to boulder-sized material composing the bulk of the rings, as well as lesser amounts o....

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Best Color Image of Jupiter's Little Red Spot

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:02:29 GMT

This amazing color portrait of Jupiter's "Little Red Spot" (LRS) combines high-resolution images from the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken at 03:12 UT on February 27, 2007, with color images taken nearly simultaneously by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on the H....

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Depth-to-Ice Map of an Arctic Site on Mars

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:02:27 GMT

Color coding in this map of a far-northern site on Mars indicates the change in nighttime ground-surface temperature between summer and fall. This site, like most of high-latitude Mars, has water ice mixed with soil near the surface....

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Probing Storm Activity on Jupiter

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:59 GMT

Scientists assume Jupiter's clouds are composed primarily of ammonia, but only about 1% of the cloud area displays the characteristic spectral fingerprint of ammonia. This composite of infrared images taken by the New Horizons Linear Etalon Infrared Spectral Imager (LEISA) captures several eruptions....

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A Change in the Weather

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:56 GMT

These two Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) images were acquired over the northern plains of Mars near one of the possible landing sites for NASA's Phoenix mission, set to launch in August 2007....

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Olivine in the Southern Isidis Basin

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:55 GMT

The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) took this observation of the transition region between Libya Montes and the Isidis Basin on Mars at 17:16 UTC (12:16 p.m. EST) on January 2, 2007, near 3.6 degrees north latitude, 84.1 degrees east longitude....

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Closer View of the Equatorial Region of the Sun, March 24, 2007 (Anaglyph)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:51 GMT

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Left Limb of North Pole of the Sun, March 20, 2007 (Anaglyph)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:46 GMT

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Galaxy Mission Completes Four Star-Studded Years in Space

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:42 GMT

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer is celebrating its fourth year in space with some of M81's "hottest" stars. In a new ultraviolet image, the magnificent M81 spiral galaxy is shown at the center. The orbiting observatory spies the galaxy's "sizzling young starlets" as wisps of bluish-white swirling a....

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Dune Field in Nili Pateria

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:35 GMT

The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) took this image of the southeastern edge of a large dune field within Nili Patera, an irregularly shaped volcanic caldera that is about 65 kilometers (40 miles) in diameter....

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Two Sides of Dunes

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:33 GMT

This pair of images, taken by the Cassini spacecraft radar mapper on two different Titan passes on Dec. 11, 2006 (T21 left), and Oct. 29, 2005 (T8 right), represent two different views of a field of dunes located near 9.4 degrees south latitude by 290 degrees west longitude....

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Titan's Giant North Pole Cloud

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:26 GMT

Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer has imaged a huge cloud system covering the north pole of Titan. This composite image shows the cloud, imaged at a distance of 90,000 kilometers (54,000 miles) during a Dec....

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Where Planets Take up Residence

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:20 GMT

This diagram illustrates that mature planetary systems like our own might be more common around twin, or binary, stars that are either really close together, or really far apart. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed that debris disks, which are signposts of mature planetary systems, are more abun....

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Titan (T16) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - July 22, 2006

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:04 GMT

This radar image shows the entire scene in which hydrocarbon lakes were first discovered on Titan, near its north pole (see ). This image was acquired on July 22, 2006, by Cassini's radar instrument in synthetic aperture mode....

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